The National Road Safety Partnership Program (NRSPP) offers a collaborative network for Australian organisations to build and implement effective road safety strategies in the workplace.

The program offers organisations the resources to improve road safety that best fit their individual operations and, at the same time, improve business productivity through less time and money lost through safety incidents.

The program is not a prescriptive approach but aims to complement existing safety legislation by providing access to a ‘knowledge bank’ from a diverse network of organisations to given them the resources to implement their own initiatives. The tools will help make the business case for organisations shifting their safety focus from 'having' to safety to secure a contract to 'wanting' to because it is simply good business.

Blacktown City Council

Blacktown City Council's Contributions to the NRSPP & Points of Contact

Program Partners

Stuart FraserDriver EducatorSector: Local Government

Who is Blacktown City Council?

Blacktown City Council utilises around 250 to 275 Lease back vehicles; 350 to 400 operational vehicles; which includes about 50 vehicles in a National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme, where these vehicles are used in waste and garbage collection / management.

What does road safety mean to Blacktown City Council?

Blacktown City Council is a modern bustling city of 48 residential suburbs. Blacktown City is home to 340,000 people, making it the largest city by population in NSW. The Council employees more than 1,500 people and many more contractors.

Australians expect to go to work and to return home safely each day and this is one of the measures used when providing the Council’s Safety Driving policy for the staff and their Families.

Operations in the City’s service(s) area is a 7 day a week process and requires significant road use and traffic management. This and the travel requirements of the Council staff make it a challenge to provide safe and efficient transport. The approach is;

Industry standards have been adopted; across all Council sections, for drivers. These include Plumbers, Electricians, Painters, Graffiti removalists; Open Space, Sports fields, maintenance and management; Waste, Garbage, Street maintenance, Cleaning, Animal control, Child care, Leisure, Public buildings and more. Here is where the driving and vehicle industry standards are combined and targeted to the specific industry user / driver / operator.

Driver Competency is assessed and developed in line with ‘Verification Of Competence; Council utilising best practice standards for the driver / operator’s benchmark.